Re: [Scheme-reports] [scheme-reports-wg2] Re: EQV? on numbers should be based on operational equivalence John Cowan 07 Jun 2012 19:08 UTC

Emmanuel Medernach scripsit:

> About signaling NaNs, do we have to specify that the payload should be part
> of the exception signaled ?

The behavior of signaling NaNs is entirely system-dependent: they can kill
the process in a low-level C library, about which we can do nothing, or they
may not raise an exception it all, about which we can also do nothing.

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